wow! that looks like a kit built one! your scratch-building has come a long way.

Loving the Dental Coving design on the main station. Great roof trusses too; very prototypical. As a builder I'm glad to see the extra detail that makes all the difference. It's a credit to you pal. The cobbling looks very slick, but in between the points will be interesting. Pretty sure you'll do a fine job of that too. Need to watch the rest of the build now !!

The harbour masters office and station building complex are excellent pieces of work. I’d be proud of them too.

Hurah again! Thank-you, all.

It’s good to know the spirit of fair play still exists. Just found a copy of that book on Amazon. Only £52 !!!!!

Those low relief buildings look great to Mike!

Love how this has evolved. Thanks for sharing your thought process with us 👍🏻

Love the buildings Many years ago when I was a picture framer We used to throw away all the mounting board cut offs! I wish I’d kept some 😊

I think those buildings are some of your best workings.Very impressive Mike.On a slightly less skill full but i enjoyed making it,i made a sort of church ruin out of cardboard,did the old black pen trick for building blocks,and weathered it with acrylic paints.I also made a rickety old footbridge again made of cardboard (like a Indiana Jones type footbridge) and used tooth pics cut into various lengths with a fine cord as the hand rail ! But the enjoyment was 10 fold over one of those expensive Hornby plastic jobbies lol ;) Keep up the great work Mike and Doug,you truly have inspired a lot of people including me,to have a go at making things.

I am always impressed with the skills of some modelers, to include your work, which is excellent...Simon

The buildings are excellent.👍 (If you've got an excess of motivation, you could send some motivation my way!🤣) Andrew🙂

Love all your videos, always good to see! I’m new to the hobby and building a layout for my son and picked up lots of tips from you. Also local to Hastings, so good to see the fisherman’s huts!

Really useful video. Thanks. It's nice to see that I am not the only with with an attention span problem!

Only just catching up on a big backlog of videos, that station; wow, looks incredible!

You could have added a lighthouse, maybe next time. A layout idea would be a brewery layout with narrow and standard gauge, a bit like St Jame’s gate brewery.

Great work, it's nice to see how your building up the layout really like the low relief buildings. They will look very effective, hope Doug's ok and working hard not seen him for a while. Take care of yourselfs stay safe Eddy xx

Splendid building. I take the reference of the book you gave, and won't forget to take a drawing pad and a ribbon meter next time I'll go in holidays in the UK. My favorite architecture is the victorian/edwardian buildings built from bricks, heavily british for me ! Your quay side is very convincing, I have seen some like yours in real life.

Beautiful model work!

You deserve to be pleased. They are are great buildings. 👍👍😎

The station, train shed and the harbor master's house are wonderfully designed and constructed. I have the same problem with my modeling. I'm off like a greyhound and if it doesn't keep me interested I'm off it quickly.

Great work ,I love Hastings and these drying towers for the nets now fir a name st Leonard’s harbour come to mind ,all the best be safe 👍🏻😀

Great modelling with an eye for detail...

That station looks amazing! Great work 👍

Like the design it as you build approach, its worked out extremely well, created something unique, functional and looks great- good on you; just shows what is possible if you have a go. I wonder if one day you will ever take on the challenge of merging all these smaller layouts into one larger functional one!

The buildings are looking really good, probably some of your best buildings you've built :)

Really good ,love the station and train shed , well done .

Your model building is fantastic, those buildings look great!

That’s incredible work. Well done starting to take shape

Them buildings are outstanding. They look really great and the train shed i think is my favourite. Fantastic work and really inspiring. Clint

you have done a fantastic job Mike the buildings look great and when that station is all painted its going to look great keep up the good work.

Hi. You should be pleased with your station building it looks brilliant. I would be over the moon if I had built that. It's all looking good.

Love the buildings on this layout, you have really done a great job!

Those buildings look great. The station shed reminds me of Wick and Thurso in terms of size. Some station buildings with roofs had them partially removed like at Whitby and Pickering when it was too expensive to maintain them particularly after wartime damage so you could try modelling that. Pickering finally had its roof replaced by the NYMR in preservation.

Wow, the station is looking good. I love these small switching layouts. Keep up the awesome work.

fantastic workmanship it sounds so simple when you talk about how its done,so much so i'm going to have a go and what if it's not as good i'll enjoy the time anyway and when it's finished it will be good enough for me,so cheers for the inspiration and gusto

That is a great design for the station building.

The Harbourmaster House is a great addition and you are right to be pleased with it!😎 The station has come loads too and will look great once painted and finished 👍 I look forward to seeing how you solve the points issue in the cobbles! Seems a real challenge 🤔 Good luck! 🍀

That really looks good. 👍

Those buildings are superb, especially the station.

Inspiring! You should be very proud of the skills you're showing, especially with this layout. I can only hope that my abilities will develop along similar lines when I finally get around to making a start on something. Might be a bit of a bidding war going-on now for a copy of the Ahern book!

Those two buildings are brilliant!

Those buildings look superb!!!

With a bit of thought it's amazing what we can achieve

Looks fantastic Well done

Fabulous build. Maybe you should do a series on making the buildings👍❤️🖍📐

Great work. I’ll have to investigate picture framers for offcuts.

Wow, those buildings look amazing. This has definatley given me plenty of ideas for the buildings I am going to scratchbuild for my latest layout. Keep up the great work.

Really enjoyed that. Thanks. I have copied your cobbles idea and created a canal on my layout in the corner (just because I wanted some water and it looked fun to do!) Love your approach of just doing what you enjoy.

That looks amazing

The buildings look superb!

hi guys this is looking very good indeed.

great update.. look forward to the next update.

Brilliant and imaginative buildings

Looks terrific. The real spirit of model making. In an earlier video you mentioned adding lights using Christmas lights. Would you be able to show how this can be done in future? Thanks again for the top info.

One of your best buildings yet Mike, the station is going to be amazing when finished and unique. Look forward to seeing the rest of the buildings take shape.

For the roof of the shed you could use strips of clear plastic to see locos. Have a look at Frome station in Somerset, that has clear stripes. But at the end of the day it’s your layout, your way. Good video, have a good day!

Awesome buildings, I have that book and it’s great to see some of the drawings brought to life. Interesting about building bigger stations just to look prosperous, the same was true of the large Victorian Churches!

I wish I had your imagination and ability to drive a project forward so fast, then you present it so well. Lovely interpretation of the harbour masters office and very neat how you extended to the station building then the engine shed. It's coming together nicely - keep em coming🤣

Those buildings look great - keen to have a go at something myself (maybe something less adventurous to start with...)

absolutely fantastic design and construction. so inspiring to see someone scratch build such original buildings. I purchased J Ahern's book on your advice and have put together some originals from photos. well done.

Looking really nice.

Great work mike. This looks like it gonna be your best railway. stay safe and well. Jack

Good work and I may have an idea here. Next to the goods shed you could put an engine where a pilot could live and (after a few shunting moves which I know you will enjoy figuring out) you can get a loco to bring in a train and have it leave still at the front. I did test this and it does work without any of the isolation those ´serious modelers´ claim you need for pilot operations.

Looks great as always

Excellent scratch building Mike, I love all the achitectural features that you've included, it is always so easy to overlook all those 'twiddly' bits of a building that really bring a model to life. I hope the motivation on this cracking little layout continues as it's taking shape at lightning speed!!! Great work so far. Small dockside crane?

One of your best vids!

I’m sure if you did a BMR kit for that glass roofed bit of the station it would sell out!

I have a similar problem to you in that anything I start has to have a quick conclusion. The other day I recorded a music track and made a video for it in a day.

ACE !🚂🚇

Hi mike if i had built those buildings to such a high standard i would be very pleased . Paul

That’s frankly astonishing! The detail in that building is incredible. Very on target with being budget but your many years of modelling are showing in the quality of this. Even you must look back on some of your early tutorial Tuesdays and think how you’ve gotten better. I’m still trying to get Rick faces 101 consistent. Maybe in 4 years time I’ll have hopefully improved a bit also. Just you again today? Doug busy with his college stuff? Hopefully he’s staying safe and well.

Wow! That looks amazing! Keep up the good work!

awesome work....great project

That is looking really good! Loving how the station building and shed have developed.

Inspiring effort with the Harbour Office, looking forward to seeing the finished station.

wow guys that looks amazing had ago at massive engine shed recently built out of mount board looks great

Well done mate, looks impressive now, I think Iam a bit like you, start off with the intention of getting the project done and dusted, but can soon get fed up if it's going slow, 👍👍👍👍.

Do like that Station building, though with all the white it reminds me of the Station Building I'm doing which is based off the Southampton Terminus one designed by William Tite. Looking forward to seeing it all finished!

Looking very nice

Looking great Mike! I can't wait to see this little one progress! Maybe you suffer from "MEBE" - Massive Enthusiasm, Bored Easily?

fantastic work your should be snapped up by one of the magazines to do some articles for beginners its a pleasure to watch your videos keep it up

Great work I'm building my extension to the Weetabix factory out if carboard box an 2 mm card

Amazing i am a newbie in this hobbies and i am enjoying watching your videos to learn

I don’t have a layout yet but I might make some of these buildings some time

Nice looking buildings, looks like it’s going to be a very grand harbour station. I take it that there is enough clearance for the second point to switch, it looked very close to the corner of the building from the angle shown.

Indubitably your best yet! I can feel the points' solution on the tip of my tongue, have a look at Chatham Docks perhaps, they have trains they have cobbles, they have rails.

Looking good. the building is looking terrific, as an aside, a copy of that book in Australia is being offered for over $100 - I think I'll give it a miss. Look forward to the next update.

Lovely! Something tells me that you need a little crane, the hand-operated sort used to get goods between boats, wagons, trucks etc. Are you going to have one?

Thats an excellent structure, looks incredible keep up the good work and the great videos :) 👍👍 Have you evee considered an American layout??

Nice one, man! Your layouts and model-making skills just keep getting better and better. What's the biggest layout you've ever built beside the one in your loft, and would you consider building another larger one in the future? :)

Tell Doug we miss him

Like it..but methinks a lot of painstaking work with lots of patience.....

I think I'll see if I can find one of those books

Fabulous work, as always. Is all the track you use set track?

Watching your harbour layout you said you use mount board for most of the build , could you give me a link to the sort of stuff you use and could you tell me what you used for the square detailing on the harbour masters house and station thanks 👍

That Miniature Construction book is currently selling between £50 and £100 used on Amazon.... If that's not a total joke I don't know what is...

Great video 😀 Will their be a fiddle yard?

The corner of the building looks a little too close to the point. Is there enough clearance?

What are the pieces of track you used?

Fantastic buildings, I am assuming you are using only one controller? Could you mention how the layout is wired for a novice like myself, many thanks.